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Important for a lot of people and a lot of families is the use of pain killers. what's your sense of the level of prescription pain killers in the va. >> throughout the country this is a national crisis. a public health crisis. in the va we noticed this and began to work on it in 2010. we have seen a 30% reduction in opioid use in the va. so we'll continue to work on to it make sure we effectively treat pain and don't unintentionally get people addicted to these times of medications. >> it must be fantastic to have a president who is so personally invested in the va. what is it like working wi...

Important for a lot of people and a lot of families is the use of pain killers. what's your sense of the level of prescription pain killers in the va. >> throughout the country this is a national crisis. a public health crisis. in the va we noticed this and began to work on it in 2010. we have seen a 30% reduction in opioid use in the va. so we'll continue to work on to it make sure we effectively treat pain and don't unintentionally get people addicted to these times of medications. >> it must be fantastic to have a president who is so personally invested in the va. what is it like working wi...

Important for a lot of people and a lot of families is the use of pain killers. what's your sense of the level of prescription pain killers in the va. >> throughout the country this is a national crisis. a public health crisis. in the va we noticed this and began to work on it in 2010. we have seen a 30% reduction in opioid use in the va. so we'll continue to work on to it make sure we effectively treat pain and don't unintentionally get people addicted to these times of medications. >> it must be fantastic to have a president who is so personally invested in the va. what is it like working wi...

Eric shinseki for a meeting at the white house today. this as the administration conversations to battle to contain the growing outrage over the potentially dead lly wait times for veterans. now officials say they're investigating 26 different va hospitals and clinics and the president is dispatching a top aide to the phoenix va facility where cnn first reported on those secret wait lists. let's get over to michelle kaczynski first. what are we learning about the meeting? >> va secretary shinseki is faced multiple calls for resignation. questions from the president as to why he wouldn't giver ...

House adviser rob nabors to work alongside the internal va investigation in this. it has been a tough couple of weeks. a crisis breaks like this, very embarrassing scandal within the va. you always want to be on the leading edge of that, kind of proactively showing that you're on top of it, you're leading the way and making the changes right now. but the white house has really been put on the defensive day by day as the scandal has only grown by the day. the white house has been unwavering in its defense of shinseki. i think that makes it seem unlikely that this meeting today will lead to any ...